Electric Vehicles

The Jakusa Triango is one man's dream come true. Támas Jakus from Gyor, Hungary one day in 2008 drew a wedge-like supercar on a piece of paper and what you now see here is that car made real. The car has a complete (and safe looking) tube steel chass

The long-rumored Apple Car could be fast-tracked for a release date in 2019 to do battle in the electric car field and rival other tech companies pursuing automobiles. Sources close to The Wall Street Journal say Apple has ramped up efforts to produc

BMW has unleashed 100 i3 EVs on the streets of Berlin, Hamburg and Munich as part of its DriveNow car sharing scheme. In London, the BMW i3 has already been added to the DriveNow fleet in May, and will soon be seen in other cities in Germany and Euro

Toyota's Harmonious Mobility Network, or Ha:mo, is a "community network for optimal use of cars and other personal vehicles in combination with" buses, trams, trains or any other means of public transportation. It aims to offer users an alternat

Tesla has just shown a short video of a prototype charger that uses a robotic (or solid metal) snake to plug in. It seems that you basically park your car, open the port at the back and the snake will pinpoint where in needs to plug itself in and wil

Current electric vehicles still can't tempt buyers as a sound financial decision, but bought in bulk and used properly they can repay their value through use. Norway's national mail service has just bought 300 all-electric Renault Kangoo Maxi Z.E. wh

Renault has announced the sale of the 250,000th electric vehicle it's produced alongside partners Nissan. It also reports 15 percent sales growth through May of this year, when the alliance sold 31,600 EVs. It comes some four and a half years after t

Along with the European-spec model, the 2016 Nissan Leaf sold in the US will be available with the new 30 kWh battery as well. The new battery provides an EPA-estimated range of 107 miles (172 km) - a 27-percent increase over the 24 kWh battery. The

Nissan has finally given the Leaf what every electric vehicle on the market needs: a longer driving range. Thanks to new 30kWh battery technology, the European 2016MY Leaf now can cover up to 250 kilometers (155 miles) on a single charge – an increas

Setting up your own power supply and storage system is becoming increasingly easy, but getting hold of good high-capacity batteries is still expensive. Then why not consider a used Chevrolet Volt battery pack for your personal power needs? Chevy says

While it may not be any kind of major achievement in and of itself, because you can't compare it to anything, all of Tesla's Model S sedans have now racked up more than a billion miles. Apparently that's the equivalent of 4,186 trips to the Moon or g

Kia has added a new trim level for the 2016 Soul EV, which lowers the price of the vehicle by $2,000. There's a catch, however: the Soul EV-e model is only available in California. The other states in which the Soul EV is available (Georgia, Hawaii,

Volkswagen is one automaker that's really been bitten hard by the green bug as it's now announcing 20 new electric or electrified vehicles by the end of the decade. In the words of VW CEO Martin Winterkorn, they "are in the process of reinventing Eur

Besides developing alternative drive vehicles like the i3 and i8, BMW i has the function of an incubator for innovation within the BMW Group. One of the projects the company has been working on, the patent for a drive unit swing arm, is entering prod

This is it people, Porsche has built the Tesla rival we all have been hearing about for the past few months. And what a car it is. The key figures are: over 600hp, over 500km of driving range, 0-100km/h in under 3.5 seconds and a mind-blowing chargin

The regenerative braking function all electric vehicles have is more than capable of stopping a car on its own. You just have to not drive particularly quickly and plan ahead for obstacles or traffic lights. As AutoExpress demonstrates in the video b

Hyundai-Kia America Technical Center (HATCI) and Mojo Mobility, a wireless power technology company, have received federal funding to research and develop a system capable of fast charging an electric vehicle wirelessly. The grant has been offered by

Nissan has donated two electric Leafs to The Ohio State University's Center for Aviation Studies, where they will serve as means of transportation from the main campus to the university's airport. OSU is one of the most prestigious universities in th

BMW and the SCHERM Group have unveiled an all-electric truck that will be used to transport components between their plants in Munich. BMW says it is the first automaker in Europe to use a 40-ton electric truck for material transport on public roads.